On a lighter point from my other posts so far today, I not only saw my first bumblebee of the year, I also found my first frog spawn on my lunchtime dog walk around Victoria Park in Glasgow. Both are good signs Spring is finally here.
I thought I'd found a small, but perfectly formed, lump of black pearl slime mould just outside our back door. Each "sporangium" was about 2mm across and looked perfectly black. Subsequently, I found two other lumps in a direct line to the pond...
As an experiment, I scraped up a very sticky lump and dropped it into a bucket of water. Within half an hour, it was expanding and showing transparent albumen and central black nuclei. Frog's eggs... Somebody couldn't wait!
One clump on Friday but at least 30 this morning - the frogs have been busy over the weekend! 🐸🥚
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